Brahmajalasutta 1.36
Brahmajala Sutta (Dialogues of the Buddha) 1.36
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1.36
‘Now of these, brethren, the Tathāgata knows that these speculations thus arrived at, thus insisted on, will have such and such a result, such and such an effect on the future condition of those who trust in them. That does he know, and he knows also other things far beyond (far better than those speculations); and having that knowledge he is not puffed up, and thus untarnished he has, in his own heart, realised the way of escape from them, has understood, as they really are, the rising up and passing away of sensations. their sweet taste, their danger, how they cannot be relied on; and not grasping after any (of those things men are eager for) he, the Tathāgata, is quite set free.
1.36.n1
Sīla, for instance, and samādhi, and all the other things known to a Buddha, says Buddhaghosa, p. 108.
1.36.n2
Paccattaṃ. See the common phrases A. II, 198=S. I, 9, 10, 117; M. I, 188=422; M. I, 251, 252 = S. III, 54, &c.; and S. N. 611,906; Mil. 96, 347; Sum. 182. ‘Without depending on anyone else, himself by himself,’ says Buddhaghosa.
1.36.n3
Nirvana, says Buddhaghosa.
1.36.n4
Gogerly (PP. 77, 78 in Grimblot) has made a sad mess of this paragraph misunderstanding the grammatical construction of the first clause, and misinterpreting- parāmasati in the second, and nissaranaṃ in the third.
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